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Pacoan-wZPMMm
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October 5, 2010
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print to pdf include hyperlinks?

  • October 5, 2010
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Apparently the Adobe PDF printer doesn't include hyperlinks due to postscript semantics? I copied text from a webpage to an Open Office doc then printed to pdf to find that the links are still blue and underlined, but their URLs have been lost.

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      Use PDFMaker, not PDF Printer. Has been recommended 15 years and more. 

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      scottt74480324
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      April 2, 2023

      Holy Cow! I am reacing this in 2023 and they still haven't fixed the problem. So much for caring about their customers, right?

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      Legend
      April 2, 2023

      Use PDFMaker, not PDF Printer. Has been recommended 15 years and more. 

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        E. Warren
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        January 18, 2011

        I'm having  a similar problem, but with the Adobe print from my browser - the resulting PDF file does not include functional hyperlinks, just blue underlined text.  How do I configure the PDF printer settings such that the links are clickable? Thanks.

          Bernd Alheit
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          Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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          January 18, 2011

          How do I configure the PDF printer settings such that the links are clickable?

          Not possible.

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          Pacoan-wZPMMmAuthor
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          January 18, 2011

          Hehehe, even in the year 2011, PostScript is not a hyperlink language, right?

          CtDave
          CtDave
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          October 6, 2010

          With Acrobat, use web capture to create the PDF or use the browser bar "Adobe PDF" to convert a web page to PDF.

          Either provides PDFs containing the web page's links.

          Be well...

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          Pacoan-wZPMMmAuthor
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          October 6, 2010

          Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I'm in a situation where converting to pdf directly from a browser provides undesirable formatting results. Instead I have been copying formatted text from the browser, pasting it in a word processor (with links intact), making minor modifications to the format, then publishing to pdf.

          I posted because I was surprised that the functionality wasn't available, and wanted to ensure that this is the case. Fortunately, Open Office has included hyperlink inclusion with PDF publishing through its exporter, so the Adobe PDF printer isn't really needed- at least until I run into some other issue that comes to fruition through the lack of universal semantics inherent of a language like postscript.

          Thanks again.

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            Pacoan-wZPMMmAuthor
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            October 5, 2010

            Ah well, whatever. It looks like Open Office has an export to pdf function, which includes hyperlinks. I bet it was a lot of trouble for them to include it.

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